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previous events.

Past Events:

December 2010

NLLGG gathering, Trajectum College, Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands11 December, 2010The "Nederlandse Linux Gebruikers Groep" (NLLGG)
organisation is arranging its third national community day in Utrecht
focusing on BSD. Like the last two years, there will be a
general and a BSD-specific track. Presentations are
yet to be announced.

November 2010

BSD-Day@2010, EÃ¶tvÃ¶s LorÃ¡nd University, Budapest, Hungary20 November, 2010This one-day event is to gather Central European
developers of today's open-source BSD systems, popularize their
work, and provide a real-life communication interface between
developers and users. There are no formalities, no papers, and no
registration or participation fee, however the invited developers
are encouraged to give a talk on their favorite BSD-related topic.
The goal is to motivate potential future developers and users,
especially undergraduate university students to work with BSD
systems.

NYCBSDCon 2010, Cooper Union, New York City, USA12 - 14 November, 2010The New York City *BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) 2010
will be held at Manhattan's prestigious Cooper Union. NYCBSDCon is
the main technical conference on the East Coast for the BSD
community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to
network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is
organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group
(NYC*BUG).

BSDday Argentina 2010, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina5 - 6 November, 2010BSDday Argentina is a conference for users, system
administrators, and developers of BSD software and BSD-based
systems. The conference is for anyone who is developing,
deploying, and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, and other BSDs. BSDday Argentina is a technical
conference and it aims to collect the best technical papers and
presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in
our open source community are shared with the widest possible
audience.

MeetBSD California 2010, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, California, USA5 - 6 November, 2010meetBSD was started in Krakow, Poland in 2004 and
strong turnout and highly regarded technical presentations have
allowed it to continue each year since then. meetBSD is a
conference devoted to the BSD operating systems with a strong
emphasis towards FreeBSD.

September 2010

FrOSCamp 2010, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland17 - 18 September, 2010FrOSCamp is an open source event organized for the first
time in 2010. There will be a FreeBSD booth as well as several
committers attending the event.

August 2010

Bugathon #7: PRs containing patches6 - 9 August, 2010A bugathon is an event coordinated by the FreeBSD
bugbusting team. Bugathons are held on IRC (in the
#freebsd-bugbusters channel of EFnet), and are attended by any
interested FreeBSD developers and contributors during a week-end.
They focus on closing as many problem reports and fixing as many
bugs as possible. The plan for the seventh bugathon is to work
through many of the problem reports in FreeBSD's GNATS database
containing patches, with a view to either committing them,
getting them into a committable shape, or explaining to the
submitters the issues with the supplied patches.

July 2010

11th Libre Software Meeting, Bordeaux, France6 - 11 July, 2010The Libre Software Meeting has occurred each year
since July 2000. This year there will again be a FreeBSD boot
camp to introduce new users to the Operating System.

meetBSD 2010, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland2 - 3 July, 2010meetBSD is an annual event gathering users and developers of
the BSD operating systems family, mostly FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
After the special California edition for the 10th FreeBSD anniversary,
meetBSD Wintercamp in Livigno, this year we are back to Krakow,
Poland.

May 2010

BSDCan 2010, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada11 - 14 May, 2010BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus
on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in
progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and
invites contributions from both free software developers and those
from commercial vendors.

April 2010

it 360Â° 2010, Toronto, Canada7 April, 2010IT360Â° Conference & Expo 2010 is an interactive experience
for IT professionals and business executives to expand their mind and
their bottom line. The BSD Certification Group will offer their BSDA
certification exam.

Solutions Linux 2010, Paris Expo, Paris, France16 - 18 March, 2010A 3 days event to promote GNU/Linux and Open Source
Software to companies. As usual, a French FreeBSD User Group will
be there to promote FreeBSD. The access to the event is free of
charge.

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010, Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany13 - 14 March, 2010Chemnitzer Linux-Tage is a two day event on Linux and Free
Software in general. There will be workshops, talks and room for various
projects to present themselves. FreeBSD will be present with a booth.

AsiaBSDCon 2010, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan11 - 14 March, 2010AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD
based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and
using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin
and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect
the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that
the latest developments in our open source community are shared with
the widest possible audience.

FOSDEM '10, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium6 - 7 February, 2010FOSDEM '10 is a free and non-commercial event organized
by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free
and Open Source developers a place to meet. Several FreeBSD
developers will be present.